Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of WIAReport. As an Amazon Associate, WIAReport will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.

Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women by W. Brad Johnson and David G. Smith (Harvard Business Review)	Ellen N. La Motte: Nurse, Writer, Activist by Lea Williams (Manchester University Press)	Engendering Revolution: Women, Unpaid Labor, and Maternalism in Bolivarian Venezuela by Rachel Elfenbein (University of Texas Press)
From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater by Carey Purcell (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Gender and Family in Japan edited by Nobuka Okuda and Tetsuhiko Takai (Springer)	Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges edited by J. Michael Ryan and Helen Rizzo (Lynne Rienner Publishers)
Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport: A History of the Present by Sonja Erikainen (Routledge)	Horrible Mothers: Representations Across Francophone North America edited by Loic Bourdeau (University of Nebraska Press)	Integrating Gender in Agricultural Development: Learnings from South Pacific Contexts edited by Lila Singh-Peterson and Michelle Carnegie (Emerald Publishing)
Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France by Judy Kern (University of Nebraska Press)	Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice by Andrea Freeman (Stanford University Press)	Sporting Gender: The History, Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes by Joanna Harper (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability by Nikki Lane (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime edited by Frances P. Bernat and Kelly Frailing (Wiley-Blackwell)	The Mysterious Sofía: One Woman’s Mission to Save Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Stephen J.C. Andes (University of Nebraska Press)